Is a Luxury Hotel With a Bowling Alley On Its Way to Heathrow?
Good news for frequent London travelers: A "new design-forward, energy-efficient 5-star hotel" is going to be going up (well, supposedly will be going up) super close to Heathrow airport. According to Inhabitat, Foster + Partners — the designers behind the Bowery Art Gallery, the NetJet airline interiors, and something called an "elephant house" — will design the place, while Riva Properties have signed on as developers.
Some notable design features, per Inhabitat:
The exterior of the new hotel will be covered in layers of glass, just one small part of the highly energy-efficient strategies characteristic of Foster+Partners designs. In addition to flooding the interior with daylight, the glass shell will act as a noise barrier from planes taking off and landing. While the hotel is actually 13 stories high, many of the floors are sunk below ground level, which gives the building a lower profile similar to the surrounding structures. Hotel rooms are contained into six different pavilions connected by bridges and enveloped by the glass shell.
This all sounds kind of space-ship-y, no? Additionally, when all is said and done, guests will be able to see through a glass deck straight down to a pool, restaurant and waterfall down below. Apparently, there will also be a bowling alley somewhere in the hotel. Cause, you know, sometimes when you get stuck overnight at an airport due to travel troubles, you've just gotta blow off some steam at your five-star hotel's bowling alley.
No expected completion date yet, but these are some pretty lofty aspirations — we'll keep an eye on it.
[Images: Foster + Partners via Inhabitat]
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